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  • Adventurous Women: Eight True Stories about Women Who Made a Difference by Colman, Penny
    Penny Colman

    Adventurous Women: Eight True Stories about Women Who Made a Difference

    The adventures of eight inspiring women of the twentieth century.Mary Gibson Henry risked her life following her passion for new botanical species. During the Civil War, Katharine Wormeley worked aboard hospital ships and helped to save the lives of many sick and wounded soldiers....
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  • Adventurous Women: Eight True Stories about Women Who Made a Difference by Colman, Penny
    Penny Colman

    Adventurous Women: Eight True Stories about Women Who Made a Difference

    The adventures of eight inspiring women of the twentieth century.Mary Gibson Henry risked her life following her passion for new botanical species. During the Civil War, Katharine Wormeley worked aboard hospital ships and helped to save the lives of many sick and wounded soldiers....
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  • Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix by Colman, Penny
    Penny Colman

    Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix

    Dorothea Dix was almost forty years old when she discovered that people, especially poor people, with mental illness were "confined in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens . chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience." Outraged by this knowledge, Dix led a forty-year...
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  • Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial by Colman, Penny
    Penny Colman

    Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial

    Drawing on extensive historical and anthropological research, personal accounts, and interviews with people who work in the funeral industry, Penny Colman examines the compelling subjects of death and burial across cultures and societies. The text, enriched with stories both humorous and poignant, includes details...
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  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed the World by Colman, Penny
    Penny Colman

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed the World

    Weaving events, quotations, personalities, and commentary into a page-turning narrative, Penny Colman's Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony vividly portrays a friendship that changed history. In the Spring of 1851 two women met on a street corner in Seneca Falls, New York--Elizabeth Cady...
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  • Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II by Colman, Penny
    Penny Colman

    Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II

    Now in paperback--the award-winning account of how 18 million women, many of whom had never before held a job, entered the work force in 1942-45 to help the United States fight World War II. Their unprecedented participation would change the course of history for...
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  • Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II by Colman, Penny
    Penny Colman

    Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II

    Colman expertly explores the enormous changes in the lives of women in their own homes and beyond. The strengths of this book are in the happy combination of abundant primary source material, a clear narrative style, and effective well-placed photographs. An important contribution.--Kirkus Reviews,...
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  • Thanksgiving: The True Story by Colman, Penny
    Penny Colman

    Thanksgiving: The True Story

    Every year on the fourth Thursday of November, Americans celebrate with a Thanksgiving meal. But what is the origin of this tradition? Did it really begin when the Pilgrims and Native Americans got together in 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts? In her signature narrative nonfiction...
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  • The Vote: : Women's Fierce Fight by Colman, Penny
    Penny Colman

    The Vote: : Women's Fierce Fight

    The Vote: Women's Fierce Fight, by award-winning author Penny Colman tells the gripping story of the battle for woman suffrage in America through first-hand accounts, newspaper headlines and articles, anecdotes, songs, poems, documents, cartoons, and phtographs. Colman interweaves contested issues involving race, class, strategies,...
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